Bird
Thayer's Gull
Larus thayeri
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 15 of 64 parishes and 4 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 15 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 4

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 15 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 4
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 4
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Still water and its edges: ponds, lakes, millponds and reservoirs.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.
Other habitats in its models (3)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Developed, Low Intensity Winter.
- Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 15 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Wildlife 266
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Thayer's Gull
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)

























